Competition Authorities and Search — Vice President and Deputy General Counsel — Government competition agencies are increasingly focused on Google's growing power in search and online advertising. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission …

Finally: Facebook Silences App Notification Spam — Facebook is about to become a quieter, less annoying place for users. The company just announced that it has deprecated “application notifications” and will require apps to use other, less intrusive methods of sending news to users.

How Digg Found a Way to Make Money — Social networking behavior — endless repetitive page views, unvetted content — isn't a great fit for traditional forms of online advertising. Early attempts to bring search or brand ads onto sites like MySpace and Facebook had pathetic results compared …

Twitter's Ad Plan: Copy Google — What will Twitter's long-awaited ad platform look like? Something like Google's. — That's the general description of Twitter's plan, according to people who have been briefed by the company. — Here are the very broad strokes:

Android vs. Apple: The flyover states — Google phones may outsell iPhones in eight U.S. states. Can you guess which ones? — Click to enlarge. Source: Myxer — Here's a bit of geographical trivia that may have business consequences. — According to a Myxer BoomBox Report released …

Lady Justice Needs a Lawsuit Filter.... In light of recent news, I wanted to share some thoughts about the lawsuit that was filed against Yelp this week. — There has been a long history of people accusing Yelp of monkeying around with reviews in exchange for money.

iPad Rival JooJoo Will Ship March 25 — Startup Fusion Garage said Friday its JooJoo touch-screen tablet computer will ship March 25. — Does the JooJoo have a chance against Apple's iPad? Tell us in the comments section at the end of this article. — That's later than FusionGarage …

Details on RIM's new BlackBerry slider? — This isn't confirmed, but with RIM rumored to be exploring sliding-QWERTY devices for a pretty long time, one of our BlackBerry connects dropped some info on us and we wanted it to share it. Here's what we know: — It's a portrait-oriented slider.

Is Google now a monopoly? — Google is to the 21st century what certain railroads were to the late 19th. It creates conditions for economic activity unthinkable before its advent. There had been no market in Paris for North Dakotan wheat until suddenly there was.

Navigate your way through user photos in Street View — With Street View in Google Maps, you can explore millions of images taken in places across the world. But the photographs you see are based on what the cameras on top of our cars, driving on public roads, can capture (or, in a few cases …

Pentagon issues new policy on social networking — WASHINGTON - The Pentagon says everyone from troops in the field to the highest brass and civilian leaders will be allowed to Twitter, blog and use Facebook and other social networking sites on the military's non-classified computer network.

Intel to introduce faster Atom chip Monday — Intel plans to release a faster version of its “Pine Trail” Atom processor for Netbooks on Monday, bringing a little extra performance to this popular segment of the laptop market. — Major PC makers are expected to announce new products …